Awareness Newsletters
These types of retailers have been criticized for perpetuating food deserts and crime in the communities they operate. This category of retailers includes Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar.
Dollar Stores
This word is what the G stands for in ESG
governance
As of 2025, this is the world’s third largest private equity firm by fundraising total. Ends in “stone”
Blackstone
This tech giant became the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach a $1 trillion market valuation in August 2018
Apple
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The Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at THIS university closed on May 22, 2025, signaling a broader crackdown on DEI initiatives at state and federal programs.
Indiana University
This gas is the most commonly tracked in corporate carbon emissions reporting
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
The acronym “LBO” stand for what in private equity. Used to buy companies using debt
Leveraged Buyout
This company was the first to launch a reusable rocket into orbit
SpaceX
Tralalero Tralala and Bombardiro Crocodilo are examples of brainrot orginating from what country?
Italy
The federal government planned to ban THIS social media platform for data privacy and foreign propaganda concerns. The ban was overturned after US-based Oracle and Silver Lake Partners agreed to buy 45% of THIS app.
Tiktok
This company’s “Earth Engine” platform uses satellite data to help governments and businesses monitor environmental changes in real time
This financial metric is most commonly used to evaluate the return on a private equity investment. Its the discount rate at which net present value of all cash flows from an investment equal 0.
This company was the first to trademark a scent—specifically, the smell of Play-Doh
Hasbro
The term for stealing someone's food
Fanum tax
Rampant vaccine disinformation and a distrust in government health agencies have contributed to a surge in THIS childhood disease in the United States, with over 1600 cases in 2025 alone.
Mealses
This country leads the world in installed solar capacity
China
This private equity firm participated in the acquistion of Electronic Arts.
Silver Lake Partners
In 1972, Katharine Graham became the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 company, taking the helm of THIS media organization.
The Washington Post
This dictionary designated "brainrot" as the 2024 "Word of the Year."
Oxford English Dictionary (also accept Oxford)
AI systems can perputate different types of bias. THIS type of bias is when AI relies on previous trends rather than finding new trends, perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
Confirmation Bias
This company created a biodegradable sneaker that has wildflower seeds in the sole.
Reebok
The usual fee structure for private equity funds is referred to as “2 and 20.” The 20% fee is known as what in the industry.
Carried Interest
This company was the first to go public (ipo’d) on the U.S. stock market in 2025, debuting at $4.00 per share
Acco Group Holdings Limited
In internet theory, “brainrot” can be understood as the terminal stage of this cultural logic, where media recycles itself endlessly through irony and nostalgia.
Postmodernism